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	A Little Night Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All of the music in the show is written in waltz (3/4) time, and the work is often considered an operetta rather than standard musical comedy.
		A Little Night Music opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973, with a cast which included Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Mark Lambert, Laurence Guittard, Patricia Elliott, and D.
		In 1978, a film version of A Little Night Music was made, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down, and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Little_Night_Music (636 words)

	Night Thesis @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The opposite of night is day (or "daytime" to distinguish it from "day" as used for a 24-hour period).
		Although equinoxes occur with a day and night close to equal length, before and after an equinox the ratio of night to day changes more rapidly in locations near the poles than in locations between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
		The Northern and Southern Hemispheres of the world experience the same patterns of night length at the same latitudes, but the cycles are 6 months apart so that one hemisphere experiences long nights (winter) while the other is experiencing short nights (summer).
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Night (442 words)

	Musical Cyberspace: A Little Night Music
		As the night advances, a grim weariness descends: the dinner is a shambles with the Countess trying to infuriate Carl Magnus by flirting with Fredrik, Henrik rushing off because of the phoniness of the people present, and Anne hastening to find him.
		The summer night has smiled on the young, the fools and, finally, the old: Madame Armfeldt dies, and the night waltz plays once more (FINALE).
		Musical Cyberspace is a musical theatre fan site and is in no way officially affiliated or connected to the musicals represented within.
	www.geocities.com /joecable1997/littlenight.html (1018 words)

	Glynis Johns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a British stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer (notably of Send in the Clowns in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music).
		One of her best known film roles was that of Winifred Banks, the children's mother, a suffragette, in Mary Poppins (1964).
		The song, Send in the Clowns, was written with her in mind, and in 1973 she won a Tony award for her role in the musical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glynis_Johns (390 words)

	A Little Night Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But at the North Shore Music Theatre, director/choreographer Barry Ivan's bare-bones staging of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, coupled with the actors' one-note approach to the characters, does little to dispel the ghosts of smarter efforts, especially Julianne Boyd's succulent 1998 staging of the musical at Barrington Stage Company.
		Boyd understood Sondheim's nostalgic-with-a-jolt debt to the early-20th-century operetta composers, and she evoked the sinuous erotica of the Art Nouveau period in a theatrical metaphor of the work as a ballroom filled with waltzing figures continually changing partners in the dance.
		It's symptomatic of a revival that bespeaks too little rehearsal time, too small a concept to fill the space, and too little ingenuity in bringing Sondheim's sophisticated slant on musical-theater love songs to aching life in the round.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/09/14/A_LITTLE_NIGHT_MUSIC.html (701 words)

	A Little Night Music: Curtain Up Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Garber's Fredrik is handsome, vain, a little creaky in the knees, and totally recognizable in his besotted fixation on his child bride to "renew his unrenewable youth", as Desiree slyly puts it.
		Choreographer Susan Stroman gracefully demonstrates the music's waltz motif and the libretto of alienated lovers by alternating the waltz with steps and patterns in which the actors are distant from each other.
		The glowing moon of a summer night is the most obvious but not the least of Michael Anania's stunning set designs illuminated by Kenneth Posner and Jeff Nellis's rich and subtle lighting design.
	www.robbierozelle.com /laura/nightmusicla2.html (573 words)

	A Little Night Music
		A Little Night Music developed from this team's desire to write a chamber opera about romance and foolishness, an idea first conceived during West Side Story (for which Sondheim was lyricist and Prince producer).
		He contrasts inner states of mental and emotional activity represented by active music and lyrics with the inactivity of their outward, visible lives.
		Music and staging are almost an indivisible unit in much of Sondheim's work, but especially in the case of "A Weekend in the Country." The script called for a completely musical scene to establish the details of how everyone meets at the Armfeldt country mansion one weekend.
	larryavisbrown.homestead.com /files/Sondheim/littlenightmusic.htm (3275 words)

	A Little Night Music
		The summer night smiles three times, a wise old woman tells her granddaughter in A Little Night Music -- once at the young, who know nothing; once at fools, who know too little; and once at the old, who know too much.
		Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler filled their 1973 musical with wry comedy and romance, with subtlety and sophistication and the kind of music that swirls you around the room.
		A Little Night Music is all about missed opportunities: Madame Armfeldt wonders aloud about the young man she turned away long ago, and nearly everyone else longs for something or someone out of reach.
	www.shakespearefest.org /a_little_night_music.htm (1929 words)

	Aisle Say (Seattle): A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
		"A Little Night Music" is one of Stephen Sondheim's most elegant and lyrical works, a romantic dance of desire, self-deception, and neatly discovered ways in which love is shaded, defined and enhanced by experience.
		Unfortunately, her skill as an actress was practically all she brought to the vocal demands of the score.
		In the musically complex sequence of numbers called "Now", "Later" and "Soon", the virtue of smart, balanced and accomplished vocal talent to deliver that brilliantly devised music was a sheer delight.
	www.aislesay.com /WA-NIGHTMUSIC.html (699 words)

	The Nick Luca Trio: A Little Night Music
		Little Town, the remarkably moody and evocative first album by the Tucson-based Nick Luca Trio, evolved over a period of months during which Luca was working as an engineer by day and cutting tracks late at night after the recording studio's clients had packed up and gone home.
		At the time he was recording Little Town, Luca had just formed his trio with drummer Jim Kober and bassist Chris Giambelluca, but he'd been part of the Tucson music scene for some time and had worked with such local indie notables as Giant Sand and Calexico.
		Little Town was recorded on the 16-track, 15 ips; I wanted that real warm, rich tone.” Luca was hired on to work at the studio and he quickly established himself as a capable engineer, and later as a producer, working with the wide variety of music clients who come to Wavelab.
	mixonline.com /mag/audio_nick_luca_trio/index.html (750 words)

	A Little Night Music: Variety
		A Los Angeles Opera presentation of a musical in two acts with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, suggested by a film by Ingmar Bergman.
		Ivey is a rare actress who can suggest her current feelings and her past existence simultaneously, so we enjoy the presence of a whole, fully rounded woman.
		Musical numbers are richly embellished by John DeMain's orchestra and Jonathan Tunick's arrangements.
	www.robbierozelle.com /laura/nightmusicla1.html (857 words)

	A Little Night Music - The Guide to Musical Theatre
		She feels little inclination to, but, when Fredrik eventually raises the matter of Anne's indestructible virginity, Desirée is appalled and immediately invites her old flame into the bedroom to end his isolation.
		As the night advances, a grim weariness descends: in Desirée's bedroom, Fredrik wonders why he's wasting his time trying to recapture his lost youth with a teenage bride; Desirée wonders why she's sleeping with a dunderhead dragoon to relieve the monotony of third-rate tours.
		The night draws to a close with a duel between Carl-Magnus and Fredrik - and a wounded Fredrik in Desirée's arms.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_l/little_night_music.htm (1178 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'A Little Night Music'
		STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S landmark 1973 musical, A Little Night Music, proves the maxim that beauty in maturity is a work not of nature but of art.
		For this second TheatreWorks look at A Little Night Music (the company first presented it more than 20 years ago), director Robert Kelley and scenic designer Tom Langguth place the show amid a gorgeous, royal blue art deco set that's often little more than a sketch or a simple line or a curve of arc.
		A summer night has three smiles, explains Madame Armfeldt (Norma Hughes), as the show opens: one for the young who know nothing, one for the fools and one for the old who know too much.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.16.03/little-0342.html (576 words)

	Marnie Lynn Pehrson - Clean Romance Club
		Grandma lived on her own little lake peninsula, and it was a perfect place to spend one’s summers — water skiing and swimming by day and fishing by night.
		It was about spending time with family in the still, cool night air with nothing but the gentle breeze on your face and the whine of electric guitars and drums wafting across the waters.
		Gabrielle strained to hear what she thought was music, then shoved the man lying next to her to stop his snoring which drowned out the faint piano.
	www.poweroflearning.com /cleanromance/books/nightmusic.htm (3947 words)

	A Little Night Music
		With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheirn and book by Hugh Wheeler, A Little Night Music was one in a series of successful collaborations between Sondheim and producer / director Harold Prince.
		Musically, the show is interesting because all the songs are written in variations of three-quarter, or waltz, time.
		Single tickets for A Little Night Music, priced from $20 to $175, are available by phone at 713/227-ARTS, out-of-town at 1-800-828-ARTS or in person at both Houston Ticket Center locations (the ticket lobby at the Wortham Theater Center and courtyard level at Jones Hall) and at all TicketMaster outlets.
	www.houstontheatre.com /little10.html (3097 words)

	COMBOPLATES: A Little Night Music
		Music and food – the right pairing is as important as food and wine.
		Cooder’s first album entirely devoted to the seamless blending of the bottleneck guitar with the music of another culture (here Bhatt’s mohan vina from India) mirrors the guests now intermingled seamlessly at your table, regardless of whether you’re serving curry, paella or pasta.
		music is presented out of love and respect, not to profit or violate copyright.
	www.comboplates.com /archives/2005/10/a_little_night_1.php (533 words)

	A Little Night Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Still, within the operatic form Sondheim/Wheeler have fashioned a musical that blends tradition and innovation as it explores the matter of love, from the tender blossoming of inexperience to the startled rekindling of long-forgotten passion.
		"Music" tells the story of a lawyer, Fredrik Egerman (the wonderful Victor Garber), who is married to a very young trophy wife, Anne (the talented Laura Benanti), who is, despite the fact that they have been married for almost a year, still a virgin.
		Ultimately all is resolved as "A Little Night Music" gloriously and elegantly combines the humor and sweet melancholy of a summer night smiling on "the very young, the very foolish and the very old."
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000586515 (447 words)

	Amazon.com: A Little Night Music (1975 Original London Cast): Music: Stephen Sondheim,Stephen Sondheim,Chris ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NIGHT MUSIC is propelled by the steady pulse of 3/4, creating the impression that none of the characters would ever come to the realization that they are merely parts being acted and presented on stage--it happens in its own little universe.
		It seems that, when approaching these personalities, actors and actresses treat the music as the music and not as a phase of the dialogue--they don't attack the parts with the brand of boldness and self-importance that each of these characters possesses.
		After proving to producers that she could handle performing the role of Desiree on the National Tour, Jean Simmons was asked to come to London to debut with the show at the Adelphi Theatre.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002W7H?v=glance (1885 words)

	Press Release - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
		An exquisite and sophisticated dream of a musical, “A Little Night Music” is a funny, bittersweet comedy that celebrates the desperation and delights of romantic attraction, as a trio of mismatched couples try to find their way to love.
		The cast of “A Little Night Music” features international, national and local stars, headed by the beloved Hayley Mills, last seen in Seattle as Anna in “The King and I.” Miss Mills stars as the renowned stage actress Désirée Armfeldt, and the acclaimed stage and screen legend Claire Bloom stars as her mother, Madame Armfeldt.
		The 5th Avenue Musical Theatre Company was established in 1989 by The 5th Avenue Theatre Association, a not-for-profit organization, as a resident theatre company, dedicated to producing and presenting the best in musical theatre in a subscription series for Northwest audiences.
	www.seedship.com /hayley/alnm/pr2.html (1543 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'A Little Night Music'
		The first time around, during the 1980s, Kelley says, he directed a conventional look at the musical, setting the show, as is commonly done, in turn-of-the-20th-century Sweden and using an art nouveau look.
		Taken from Smiles of a Summer Night, the film that made Ingmar Bergman famous, A Little Night Music tells the story of middle-aged Fredrik Egerman and his teenage bride, Anne.
		In a very Shakespearean turn, the maid delivers one of the show's sharpest observations--and one of Sondheim's most famous lyrics--in "The Miller's Son." "It's a very short road from the pinch and the punch to the paunch and the pouch and the pension," she sings in a rapid-fire rhythm.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.02.03/little-0340.html (654 words)

	A Little Night Music
		S the play begins, the quintet of singers vocalizes ("Night Waltz"), they then break into a surreal waltz in which the principal characters jump from one partner to another.
		A Night Waltz is heard, and once more the principal characters appear in a surreal waltz, this time paired off as the evening's events have suggested.
		This synopsis for "A Little Night Music" was written by J. Crabb and originally published on this website on April 2, 2002.
	www.theatrehistory.com /american/a_little_night_music_001.html (1288 words)

	Little Night Music (Original Broadway Cast) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of Stephen Sondheim's better-known works, A Little Night Music is inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night.
		Typically cerebral, the soundtrack is highlighted by the now-standard "Send in the Clowns," one of Sondheim's greatest contributions to the world of musical theater, at once bittersweet and enchanting.
		Also included on this CD recording is a bonus track of a misguided reworking of the song "The Glamorous Life" (not the Sheila E. hit from the 1980s) from the movie version of A Little Night Music, which is unfortunate because the original (available on this recording) is so charming.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,373635,00.html (262 words)

	A Little Night Music review
		STEPHEN Sondheim's A Little Night Music is one of the finest examples of why this composer is so revered by true lovers of musical theatre.
		Based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, A Little Night Music follows the intricate relationships between as a group of socialites, showbiz types, landed gentry and the military whose machinations climax at a weekend in the country.
		Act One needs a little more punch and excellent diction is always a watchword with wordy Sondheim, but overall it's smiles all round for Therry with this musical classic.
	www.messenger.net.au /Pulse/htm/night090604.htm (390 words)

	AisleSay (Boston) A Little Night Music
		Instead of the explosive energy and enthusiasm that are the usual contribution of a big Publick Theatre chorus, "Night Music" calls for an intimate ensemble of 3 women and 2 men, ably filled by Vanessa Schukis, Alisha Jansky, Penny Rubenfeld, Tim Ostendorf, and John Middleton.
		Young Anne is very happy to be living as the wife of her adored "uncle" Fredrik, but something-- presumably the tinge of incest in the relationship-- makes her shy away from consummating the marriage, and besotted indulgent Fredrik shies away, too: for eleven months.
		The amazing thing about "Night Music" is that it does appeal to the intelligent heart.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/alittle.html (1122 words)

	The 5th Avenue Theatre - 2001-2002 Season - A Little Night Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sondheim and Prince had little difficulty obtaining Bergman's permission to adapt his film.
		The tone of A Little Night Music is vastly different from Bergman's film.
		When Bergman finally saw the musical, he observed, "I was surprised that it was possible to eliminate the shadows of desperation, eroticism and caprice without the whole story collapsing.
	www.5thavenuetheatre.org /archive/a_lnm_smiles.shtml (311 words)

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